From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 00:46:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9153F16A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam1.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 461DA43F75 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@snu.ac.kr) Received: (snipe 27700 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2003 08:14:43 -0000 Received: from lahaye@snu.ac.kr with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.048832 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 08:14:43 -0000 X-RCPTTO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Received: from snu.ac.kr ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8G7jK9H303592 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:45:20 +0900 Message-ID: <3F66BFC3.8050609@snu.ac.kr> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:46:11 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030726 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: "X -query localhost" results in blank screen !?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:46:15 -0000 Hello, I thought I more or less understand how to handle these things in X, but I am totally puzzled here. For me, there are three crucial files /etc/ttys: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config: ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm !DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess: * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser At startup, I get an xdm/Xlogin on screen on display :0. With the above settings I expect the following should work for creating another Xlogin screen X :1 -query localhost Indeed it switches screen, but it is blank only; even no error messages from X. Any ideas? Thanks, Rob. PS: Unrelated: have you noticed the error message in /var/log/xdm.log xdm error (pid 157): extra arguments on command line: xdm error (pid 157): "ttyv8" xdm error (pid 157): Is this some miscommunication between init, /etc/ttys and xdm ?